Cooperative Conservation Amreica
A Sample of Cooperative Conservation Case Studies
Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic
Project Name:
Charles River
Location:
Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Massachusetts
Summary:
The Clean Charles effort brings together a variety of organizations and their diverse projects to clean the river for swimming by 2005.
Website:
www.epa.gov/boston/charles2005
Contact:
Robert Zimmerman, Jr.
Executive Director
Charles River Watershed Association
781-788-0007
rzimmerman@crwa.org
Project Name:
Lower Bronx River—A Community-Led Restoration Initiative
Location:
Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New York
Summary:
With many partners, the Bronx River Alliance re-established salt marshes and created parkland at the site of an abandoned concrete plant.
Website:
www.bronxriver.org
Contact:
Linda R. Cox
Executive Director
Bronx River Alliance
718-430-4668
Linda.Cox@parks.nyc.gov
Project Name:
Local Fisheries Knowledge Pilot Project
Location:
Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Maine
Summary:
Students explore the connections between fisheries, the marine environment, their communities and their own lives while creating intergenerational collaborative partnerships.
Website:
www.st.nmfs.gov/lfkproject
Contact:
Julie Bartsch
Northeast Regional Coordinator
Rural School and Community Trust
978-779-0047
jbartsch@earthlink.net
Project Name:
Nitrogen Control Program, Long Island Sound
Location:
Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New York, Connecticut
Summary:
79 Connecticut municipal wastewater discharges reduced nitrogen levels in LIS through an innovative nitrogen-trading program to save over $200,000,000 over traditional permitting.
Website:
www.dep.state.ct.us/wtr/lis/nitrocntr/nitindex.htm
Contact:
Gary R. Johnson, P.E.
Senior Environmental Engineer
Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection
860-424-3754
gary.johnson@po.state.ct.us
Project Name:
Saratoga Apple Orchard
Location:
Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: New York
Summary:
This project preserves some of the best agricultural soils in NY, saves spectacular landscapes and views, and preserves a beautiful entryway to the historic villages of Schuylerville and Victory.
Website:
www.saratogaplan.org
Contact:
Alane Chinian
Executive Director
Saratoga PLAN
518-587-5554
alane@saratogaplan.org
Southeastern
Project Name:
Mitchell River Coalition
Location:
Southeastern: North Carolina
Summary:
The Mitchell River Coalition came together to protect and improve the watershed and water quality of the Mitchell River.
Contact:
Dick Everhart
District Conservationist
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
(336) 386-8751x3
Richard.Everhart@nc.usda.gov
Midwest/Northern High Plains
Project Name:
Restoration at Kankakee Sands
Location:
Midwest/Northern High Plains: Indiana
Summary:
Restoration of both hydrology and native plants on fragments of farmland will add to a mosaic of stream, wetland, prairie and savanna.
Website:
nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/indiana/preserves/art2375.html
Contact:
Gene Fleming
Chief, Environmental Formulation and Analysis Section, Planning Branch
US Army Corps of Engineers, Chicago District
(312) 846-5585
Eugene.J.Fleming@usace.army.mil
Project Name:
Stearns Farm Stream Restoration Project
Location:
Midwest/Northern High Plains: Ohio
Summary:
This project is the restoration of an urban stream channel into a fully functioning headwater stream. This stream flows into Big Creek, the 3rd largest tributary to the Cuyahoga River.
Website:
www.CuyahogaRiverRAP.org
Contact:
James White
Executive Director / River Navigator
Cuyahoga River Remedial Action Plan (RAP) / Cuyahoga American Heritage River
216-241-2414 x307
WhiteJ@CuyahogaRiverRAP.org
Project Name:
Providing Data Critical to Managing the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem for a Keystone Species
Location:
Midwest/Northern High Plains: Wyoming
Summary:
Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team conducts research and long-term radio monitoring efforts on expanding grizzly bear populations in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
Website:
www.nrmsc.usgs.gov/research/igbst-home.htm
Contact:
Charles C. Schwartz
Principal Investigator
U. S. Geological Survey
406-994-5043
chuck_schwartz@usgs.gov
South-Central/South-West
Project Name:
Fort Still Private Lands Initiative
Location:
South-Central/South-West: Oklahoma
Summary:
A broad-based coalition of interests has come together to identify common concerns and provide a mechanism for de-conflicting economic, environmental, and social needs in positive ways.
Website:
www.landlegacy.com/index.asp?page=new&issue=20040002
Contact:
Steve Bonner
Community Planner
NPS Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance
512-916-5163
steve_bonner@nps.gov
Project Name:
James Bates Blue hole County Park
Location:
South-Central/South-West: Texas
Summary:
Developed a 300+ acre County park facility to preserve key wetlands and provide the public access to a recreational area
Contact:
Darrell H. Schwebel
President
Cradle of Texas Conservancy, Inc
(979)285-2173
dhschwebel@dow.com
Project Name:
Quivira Coalition
Location:
South-Central/South-West: New Mexico
Summary:
The Coalition fosters ecological, economic, and social health on western landscapes through education, innovation, collaboration, and progressive public and private land stewardship.
Website:
www.quiviracoalition.org
Contact:
Courtney White
Executive Director
Quivira Coalition
(505) 820-2544
executive@quiviracoalition.org
Far West
Project Name:
Cooperative Air Quality Workshops
Location:
Far West: California
Summary:
A series of agricultural air quality workshops were offered to San Joaquin Valley farmers to create Conservation Management Practice plans (CMPs).
Contact:
John Beyer
NRCS Air Quality Coordinator
Natural Resources Conservation Service
559-252-2191
john.beyer@ca.usda.gov
Project Name:
Poso Creek Flood Plain Wetland Habitat Project
Location:
Far West: California
Summary:
On the Poso Creek Flood Plain Wetland Habitat Project, partners are working together to restore and enhance wetlands in the Tulare Basin, site of California's largest historic freshwater wetland.
Contact:
Chadd Santerre
Senior Waterfowl Habitat Biologist
California Waterfowl Association
530-868-5072
chadd_santerre@calwaterfowl.org
Project Name:
Kagman Watershed Project
Location:
Far West: Pacific Islands
Summary:
Joint effort by CNMI Dept. of Land & Natural Resources, Saipan & No. Islands SWCD and USDA NRCS to address flooding of agricultural land during rainy season & irrigation shortage during dry season.
Contact:
Jeffrey Wheaton
State Conservation Engineer
USDA NRCS, Pacific Basin Area Office
(671) 472-7105
jeffrey.wheaton@pb.usda.gov
Project Name:
East Bay Creek Restorations
Location:
Far West: California
Summary:
The East Bay Watershed Center at Merritt College has designed and/or implemented several urban creek restorations, wildfire control and public interpretive installations in the San Francisco Bay Area
Website:
www.merritt.edu/~envst
Contact:
Robin Freeman
Director
Merritt College Watershed Center
510-434-3840
rfreeman@merritt.edu, rfreeman@peralta.edu
Project Name:
Hells Canyon and Owyhee's Weed Prevention Project
Location:
Far West: Idaho
Summary:
The focus of this project is prevention of invasive species expansion in Hells Canyon grasslands and Owyhee shrub steppe ecological systems in Idaho, Oregon and Washington. BLM, USFS, ISDA, and IDFG.
Website:
nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/idaho/science/art11928.html
Contact:
Arthur Ray Talsma
Hells Canyon and Owyhees Conservation Manager
The Nature Conservancy
208-343-8826 ext 15
atalsma@tnc.org
Project Name:
Restoration of Migratory Fish Habitat Through Dam Removal and Fish Passage
Location:
Far West: California, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Washington, DC, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, Vermont, Connecticut
Summary:
In 2001 American Rivers and the NOAA CRP began a partnership to cooperatively provide financial and technical assistance to local communities for dam removal and fish passage projects.
Website:
www.nmfs.noaa.gov/habitat/restoration/projects_programs/crp/partners/americanrivers.html
Contact:
Elizabeth Maclin
Director
American Rivers—Rivers Unplugged Campaign
202-347-7550
emaclin@americanrivers.org
Project Name:
Steens Mountain Wilderness Fence Removal
Location:
Far West: Oregon
Summary:
With BLM support, three citizen groups participated in six week-long volunteer work parties and provided over $60,000 worth of volunteer labor to remove 16 miles of unneeded fence wire and posts.
Contact:
Karla Bird
Andrews Field Manager
Bureau of Land Management, Burns District
541-573-4425
karla_bird@or.blm.gov
National
Project Name:
America’s Private Lands Conservation Partnership
Location:
National
Summary:
Conservation Districts carry out natural resource management programs at the local level and work with more than 2.5 million cooperating landowners on nearly 98 percent of U.S. private lands.
Website:
www.nacdnet.org
Contact:
Christa Jones
Regional Representative
National Association of Conservation Districts

christa-jones@nacdnet.org

 

 

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